Music Issue Companion CD
Track List
1| “The Early Bird Always Gets the Worm” MICHAEL HURLEY 3:13
Face a Frowning World: An E. C. Ball Memorial Album, Tompkins Square, tompkinssquare.com, snockonews.net
2| “Walking Jaybird” ETTA BAKER 2:40
Banjo, Music Maker, musicmaker.org
3| “Birmingham Is My Home” BIRMINGHAM HERITAGE BAND 7:32
Composer Amos Gordon, arranger Sammy Love, band leader Frank Adams, Birmingham is Our Home, Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. jazzhall.com
4| “They used to use a pocket knife. . .” BUKKA WHITE 2:48
Interview by David Johnson, Beverly, Massachusetts, 1976; courtesy of David Johnson
5| “The Mighty Flood” ALABAMA SLIM AND LITTLE FREDDIE KING 3:43
The Mighty Flood, Music Maker, musicmaker.org, littlefreddieking.com
6| “Lord, I’m in Your Care” ROYAL JUBILEE GOSPEL SINGERS 3:24
Recorded by Michael Taylor at the home of Otis Jones, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, 20 February 2010; courtesy of Michael Taylor, the Royal Jubilee Gospel Singers, and Warren County Memorial Library
7| “Pick Me Up” FILTHYBIRD 2:49
Songs for Other People, Holidays for Quince, holidaysforquince.com, filthybird.com
8| “I Got a Woman” THE CONSTELLATIONS 1:28
David Lee / Active Music ASCAP, paradiseofbachelors.com
9| “Your Wagon Needs Greasing” THE HUSHPUPPIES 3:43
Homestead on the Farm, Old 97 Wrecords, old97wrecords.com, thehushpuppies.com
10| “My God Is Real” JOE BROWN AND THE SINGING MELLERAIRS 2:39
David Lee / Washington Sound ASCAP, paradiseofbachelors.com
11| “Just As I Am Without One Plea” PHILADELPHIA AND HOLLOW SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCHES 3:43
Recorded by Eddie Huffman at Philadelphia Primitive Baptist Church in Caldwell County, North Carolina, 16 July 2006; courtesy of Eddie Huffman and the congregation of Philadelphia and Hollow Springs Primitive Baptist Churches
12| “Untitled” IDYLL SWORDS 4:02
Purposeful Availment, Three Lobed Recordings, threelobed.com, cirrusoxide.com
13| “Don’t Let Him Ride” MISSISSIPPI NIGHTINGALES 3:19
Fire in My Bones: Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African American Gospel, 1944-2007, Tompkins Square, tompkinssquare.com
14| “We Are Lumbee” LUMBEE 4:54
Recorded live at the Pink Pussycat Lounge, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1970; courtesy of Willie French Lowery, willielowery.com
15| “Dreaming about the guitar. . .” PRESTON FULP 3:47
Sawmill Worker, Lucky Guitar Music / Music Maker, musicmaker.org
16| “Cindy” PRESTON FULP 3:47
Sawmill Worker, Lucky Guitar Music / Music Maker, musicmaker.org
17| “Kaufman’s Ballad” MEGAFAUN 3:56
Gather, Form & Fly, Hometapes, home-tapes.com, megafaun.com
18| “Wauhatchie Yards” HAMPER MCBEE 3:05
The Good, Old-Fashioned Way, Twos & Fews / Drag City, dragcity.com, roothogordie.wordpress.com
19| “Going Crazy Over T.V.” JIMMY ANDERSON AND THE MOJO BLUES BAND 3:15
Blues Parade 2000, Styx Records, styxrecords.com, mojobluesband.com, myspace.com/soulmanlee
20| “In the Evenin’” ROGER MCGUINN 2:24
Home recording, 1957, from Folk Den: Roger McGuinn in the Folk Tradition, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0, folkden.com, mcguinn.com
RUNNING TIME 67:16
COMPILED BY Aaron Smithers
MASTERED BY Aaron Smithers and John Loy at the Southern Folklife Collection
Special thanks to Steve Weiss, Head, UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection.
